There’s a lot said and written on immersion into alternative or even virtual worlds, on people getting lost in gamespace or the Internet’s interactive realms, and so on. In consequence thoughts about the questions arising with these ‘other realities’ fly … Continue reading →
At the ↵Cyberspace 2005 Conference I will give a little talk. Here’s the abstract: The lack of a suitable understanding of reality experienced by human beings hampers the discourse on social and cultural phenoma triggered by information and communication technologies … Continue reading →
or, cybernetics as a tacit but paradigmatical cultural topos Already in 1994 anthropologist ↑Arturo Escobar bid his colleagues ↵welcome to cyberia and hinted at a path towards an ‘anthropology of ↑cyberculture‘. But astoundingly enough Escobar takes words as ‘cyberspace’ and … Continue reading →
by Timo Baur It is still difficult to delineate the medium Internet as an object of investigation for cyberanthropology. The same is true for precisely positioning the cultural spaces which are perceptible via the Internet within a broader anthropological perspective. … Continue reading →
Via his thesis development plan ↑Control and communication in the animal and the machine I stumbled onto Garnet Hertz’ ↑Cockroach controlled mobile robot: “Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” is a cockroach-controlled mobile robot system. The … Continue reading →
Cybernetics was defined by Norbert Wiener [see picture above] as ‘the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine’ [↵Wiener 1948]—in a word, as the art of steermanship, and it is to this aspect that the book … Continue reading →
Wonderful, wonderful—I already reported on ↵KerLeone’s and GutBomb’s feats of bringing vintage hardware online. Now ↑Quantum Link [Reloaded] gives all of us the chance to connect our Commodore 64 to the net. via entry at boingboing
Continue reading →—is anybody home | Calling elvis—I’m here all alone | Did he leave the building | Or can he come to the phone | Calling elvis—I’m here all alone [Mark Knopfler—originally released on ‘On Every Street’] The Unreal 2003 … Continue reading →
↑Orange already had ↑pointed us to ↑spezial#1 (see ↵senseless), now she has ↑duly blogged the release of ↑spezial#2—both being South-Park-style satirical flash-movies by Christian Wasser of ↑sinn-los.de [senseless] taking up the computergames & violence issue. [both movies in German] The … Continue reading →